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Turkish workers carry a banner at an anti-NATO demonstration reading “Leave NATO and seize control of the bases! Down with imperialism!” | Photo via TKP<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

ANKARA\u2014Turkish police detained more than 100 people on Sunday during nationwide anti-NATO demonstrations organized by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP), as authorities imposed a blanket ban on protests in the capital ahead of the military alliance\u2019s summit this week.<\/p>\n

Demonstrators took to the streets in six cities\u2014Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Adana, Samsun, and \u00c7anakkale\u2014chanting \u201cNATO, get out of the country\u201d and \u201cNo passage to NATO\u201d as riot police used tear gas to disperse crowds in Ankara\u2019s central K\u0131z\u0131lay Square. Protesters there also voiced solidarity with Palestine, holding NATO and its leading members accountable for the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Several Palestinian flags were seen in the demonstrations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have gathered today in many parts of Turkey to protest against NATO,\u201d TKP Secretary General Kemal Okuyan said in Istanbul. \u201cWe said that we would not hand over Ankara to supporters of NATO, that we would not allow Ankara to remain silent. We have fulfilled that promise.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Communist Party Secretary General Kemal Okuyan addresses the crowd in Istanbul. | Photo via TKP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Ankara, where Turkish authorities have effectively turned into a fortress for the NATO Summit, TKP members, workers, and their allies held a massive march. Police intervened violently as protesters approached K\u0131z\u0131lay, which resulted in multiple injuries. The TKP reported that seven of its members suffered severe head injuries, some sustained fractures to their arms and rib cages, and one underwent angiography due to a suspected heart attack.<\/p>\n

Mass marches from Istanbul to Izmir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thousands gathered in front of Istanbul\u2019s Taksim Square and marched toward Dolmabah\u00e7e, retracing the route of the historic 1968 action when students, led by Deniz Gezmi\u015f, threw soldiers of the U.S. 6th Fleet into the sea. The march was joined by delegates of the International Anti-NATO Summit meeting in Istanbul, who carried the World Peace Council\u2019s banner, which read \u201cYes to Peace, No to NATO.\u201d<\/p>\n

Addressing the crowd in Istanbul, Okuyan drew a direct line from the struggles of the past to today. \u201cJust as those who threw the soldiers of the 6th Fleet into the sea here decades ago restored the honor of this country,\u201d he said, \u201crevolutionaries all over Turkey are doing the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Izmir, protesters marched to the NATO base in Buca.<\/p>\n

\u201cNATO is the representative of the capitalist class, the bosses, the religious sects, the exploitative bandits who are dragging our country into darkness,\u201d said Senem Doruk \u0130nam of the TKP.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is their armed force. They have implemented all kinds of evil in our country through NATO. They pointed those weapons at our intellectuals, our youth, our working people. They committed murders, massacres, and coups.\u201d<\/p>\n

Demonstrations also took place in Samsun, where protesters chanted \u201cYankee go home,\u201d and in \u00c7anakkale and Adana, where marchers carried banners saying, \u201cWe are marching for our country and our honor.\u201d<\/p>\n

NATO\u2019s militarism under fire<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photo via TKP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The protests come as the Ankara NATO summit is expected to discuss increasing member states\u2019 defense spending to 5% of GDP by 2035\u2014a longstanding demand from the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Demonstrators around Turkey carried banners reading \u201cNATO wants war, workers want peace,\u201d \u201cBudget for the people, not for NATO,\u201d and \u201cNo to NATO, no to war.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not abandon our work with NATO today or tomorrow,\u201d Okuyan said. \u201cWe will follow up on this summit. We will follow up on the international decisions they made at this summit, and we will continue the struggle.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue until this country, our beloved country, becomes an independent, sovereign, exploitation-free, and socialist country. Until that day, we will continue the struggle. The bases must be seized, NATO must get out!\u201d<\/p>\n

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